In a recent comment, Mopsa said the pictures on this blog are not as good as the pictures on Catchat. Clearly she is not a John Deere fan. So for her benefit here is a photo of our harvester and two, that's right count them, two Case tractors. If that doesn't tickle her fancy then I don't know what on earth would.
In a recent Catchat entry, La Relf gave a link to a picture of a tiny pig drinking a cup of tea. Even for a blog which normally operates outsides the realm of normality this is a new low. Some of the animal stuff on that blog redefines the term "totally weird" and not in a good way, in a bad and wrong way. Baby pigs should not drink massive cups of tea.
Right potato data for you...
Our awful field, Field 6, came in at 10.6 boxes/acre of saleable potatoes. We threw an awful lot of green ones out on the grader. The heavy rain in July washed the soil from the top of the ridges and exposed some of the potatoes. It is quite a bright looking sample but the lenticels are raised (they swell and burst in wet conditions leaving little brown dots on the skin) so this will be the first field that isn't good enough for M&S. Since then we have finished field 5 (the contracted Nicola which yielded only 12 boxes/acre) and field 7. 7 was a very nice looking block of Maris Piper which yielded 19.6 boxes/acre. We are going to put those (and all the reamining potatoes) into cold storage to sell next spring.
We should finish field 8 today which only leaves one more field. Yippee (no more boring stats)
Thanks for the picture – while the tractors don’t really do anything for me, the grey skies made me feel nostalgic for my student days in Lincolnshire…
Incidentally, I think I’ve gone soft by spending too much time checking out the opposition. That pig picture on CatChat elicited an ‘ahhhh’ from me, that is, until I realised I’d been tricked into going on the Daily Mail website.
Caroline
I also felt "had" over the Daily Mail thing - I don't think that they should be given the oxygen of publicity on their site. I am not even sure that I'm in favour of them being given the oxygen of oxygen at the Daily Mail.
That grey sky is pure Lincolnshire, isn't it?
Sorry, just doesn't do it for me - for that I can just look out of my window/take a short stroll, stand anywhere in Devon....
Nah. I'm not having that; nowhere compares to the bleak and grey Lincolnshire skyscapes.